diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index c058da6a1..3deebd8a0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Dendrite 0.8.5 (2022-05-13)
+
+### Features
+
+* New living documentation available at <https://matrix-org.github.io/dendrite/>, including new installation instructions
+* The built-in NATS Server has been updated to version 2.8.2
+
+### Fixes
+
+* Monolith deployments will no longer panic at startup if given a config file that does not include the `internal_api` and `external_api` options
+* State resolution v2 now correctly identifies other events related to power events, which should fix some event auth issues
+* The latest events updater will no longer implicitly trust the new forward extremities when calculating the current room state, which may help to avoid some state resets
+* The one-time key count is now correctly returned in `/sync` even if the request otherwise timed out, which should reduce the chance that unnecessary one-time keys will be uploaded by clients
+* The `create-account` tool should now work properly when the database is configured using the global connection pool
+
 ## Dendrite 0.8.4 (2022-05-10)
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/internal/version.go b/internal/version.go
index 5097bb2a6..04c9a8a88 100644
--- a/internal/version.go
+++ b/internal/version.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ var build string
 const (
 	VersionMajor = 0
 	VersionMinor = 8
-	VersionPatch = 4
+	VersionPatch = 5
 	VersionTag   = "" // example: "rc1"
 )